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Red Cloud Seen Through Friendly Eyes
July 28, 1870 issue

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The article focuses on Stephen R. Riggs and his book "Tahkoo Wakau." Riggs is one of the earlier missionaries--a gentleman well known to students of the Indian languages by his very creditable "Grammar and Dictionary of the Dakota Language," published by the Smithsonian Institution in 1852. Riggs furnishes a truthful and sufficiently vivid picture of missionary work in a field as fruitful of intermingled trials and joys as any in which brave men have labored across the seas. The term "Tahkoo Wakau," which serves as the title of the book, as well as of the chapter on the Dakota religion, means "that which is supernatural or mysterious."

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TAHKOO Wakau (Book); RIGGS, Stephen R.; DAKOTA literature; MISSIONARIES in literature; DAKOTA language; INDIANS -- Languages
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